Oliva, Achille Bonito — Giovanni Rizzoli

Firenze, Italy, Galleria Poggiali e Forconi Arte Contemporanea, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial covers. Italian language texts and replete with black-and-white and full-color photographs. From the artist's own web-site comes: "Born in Venice in 1963, he lived in Venice until 1977, when he moved to Canada to attend Stanstead College in Québec, where he spent three years. In 1980, he studied for a year and half at the École Nouvelle de Chailly in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1982, he attended Saint Stephen’s School in Rome, where he received the International Baccalaureate. He then took the Sotheby’s Works of Art Course in London, in 1984 - 1985; between 1985 and 1987 he attended at the same time the Architectural Association and the City and Guilds in London. In 1988 in New York, he attended a course of traditional Japanese painting. After that, he graduated in Art History at the Ca' Foscari University in Venice, in 1991. He has been a visiting scholar at New York University in New York and Venice. He lives and works in Milan." 75 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New